Hugh Durrant Archives - North West End UK

4Feb

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Yorkshire & Humber

Rocky Horror Show – Bradford Alhambra

There are not many shows where the opening overture gets a massive round of applause, but this is the Rocky Horror Show where usual theatrical rules do not apply during this cult classic. More than fifty years after Richard O'Brien first staged his transgressive love letter to the fifties and sixties B-movies of his youth the Rocky Horror Show continues to play round the world, including a cold Monday night in West Yorkshire. This is the simple tale of two very straight fifties kids, Janet (Lucy Aiston) and Brad (James Bisp), who stumble upon the lair of transvestite mad scientist Frank N Furter who is conducting strange experiments in his spooky mansion with his gang of kooky misfits, and takes great delight in corrupting the naive young couple. It's a mashup of finding yo...

Rocky Horror Show – Sheffield Lyceum

Sheffield waited with antici……….pation and at last the Rocky Horror Show crash landed into the Sheffield Lyceum. With a well versed and non-virginal Rocky audience there were more sparkly tailcoats and top hats, green surgical gowns, heavy rocker leather jackets and more basques, corsets and suspenders than you can find in Ann Summers and this production did not disappoint. After first seeing Richard O Brien’s Rocky Horror Show on its original UK tour in 79/80 (as a 14-year-old schoolgirl with a music teacher who didn’t do his research homework very well and was subsequently horrified he may lose his job!) I am somewhat of a connoisseur it could be said, and after sampling over 60 visits to Frank’s castle the question was - could this production still fill me with the amazement of my first...

The Rocky Horror Show – Opera House, Manchester

Since the original show in 1973 the ‘Rocky Horror Show’ has gained generations of fans who have been seduced by its mix of horror-comedy and science-fiction script, with an excuse to dress up for the occasion. Over the half a century of the show, it has increased in its popularity with the not just the oldies but with a whole new generation of young followers. Despite the show being over 50 years old it has absolutely no signs of ageing as it continues to entice theatregoers through its doors with its bright, bold and extremely risqué script that bursts into life from the beginning through to the finale. The show is not for the faint hearted as you are guaranteed to be met with an auditorium of ladies or men in French maid outfits, an array of glittery top hats and dazzling tailcoats, s...